Year 11 support thread - keep on keeping on!

Ha, there'll be Band practice round at yours in the future then Bertrand!

@woodlands01 Thank you very much for the link. Ds is doing it right now.

Just when I was looking forward to not paying for extra maths, I've just had a text from ds saying " Can I have piano lessons?"

Tbh my own DS never goes out anywhere, has no sense of wanting to 'explore ' the world, is utterly risk averse... not sure what on earth he would have come up with.

I am betting' we can't wrap them up in cotton wool' makes a zillion appearances in the responses. And maybe 'special snowflakes'.

Oh yes keepondreaming, that thread about the woman who wanted her DC to climb trees in the park but a controlling DF kept 'forcing' them to play competitive football games sprang to mind!

We could have written it in the style of Mumsnet!

settledandsmug I won't find out till 4 o'clock; our school is wonderful and makes them stay in the afternoon, even when they haven't got an exam.
In fact it is even better than wonderful, as they have special revision sessions in between exams.

Did he manage Choccy?

Our school states that if you don't get the maths required grade you can still join sixth form but retake maths gcse in year 12.

@Piggywaspushed I thought exactly that too. If only DD had read about controlling or relaxed parenting, the pros and cons, on here, she'd have aced the exam. I reckon a few mumsnetters could have got an 8 at least on that question!

DS thought his (AQA) English was ok but not great. The comparison pieces were apparently something about parents talking about their children growing up, with the 19th century piece from a newspaper. His persuasive writing was something about parents giving their children too much freedom or being too lenient or something like that - tbh, we were eating lunch in Pret at the time and I can really only remember the word "parents"! He didn't think it was a particularly difficult paper but I think he's in a bit of a slump at the moment so just couldn't get himself motivated to do as well as he should/could have. Roll on Friday!

I suspect it is the same at DS's school, not super selective but partially selective (we are in an anomaly area where most schools take a % intake on academics, that's how he got in as we're outside catchment). He'll have to change options, he applied for Biology based on being last predicted an A/A*, Business studies and geography with English as a back up.

Now he doesn't really want geography so he may change that anyway but he doesn't know what for, English went well (he says) but I don't think that's a good idea.

fleur - I was wondering that too.

DS put down biology as one of his (four) A level choices but since actually revising for the subject has realised he's not too keen on it! Only took him 2 years to realise it He did mentioned swapping it to english but after todays paper he's now not sure.

So gawd knows what he will do. Hid inductions days are at the beginning of July and I guess they will explain it all then.

crusty!!

DS's girlfriend got 'condescending' in but ds hasn't told me of any good words he wrote yet!!!

Dd & her friends were all trying to get glib & crusty into their papers. Their extract was a bloody Daily Fail article.

Fleur at dd's she'd have to change courses if she dropped grades but wouldn't lose her place. Either change A levels or reduce number of A levels/do BTECs/do resits etc ... that's at a comp though which offers wide range of courses at all levels. I don't know how it would work at a super selective where they only do A levels or have very high entry requirements.

To do 3 or 4 A levels dd only needs 7 passes with Bs in her A level subjects & a 6 for maths for science courses.

Last exams this Friday, prom next Friday, induction the week after then we're off on holiday.

Our sixth form induction days are in two weeks' time. I am a bit puzzled regarding what happens if let's say DS doesn't get the required grades?! He set his heart on it, bought the dress code clothes, going to the induction days and then boom, you are not joining?!

Hubris means the overconfidence that inevitably leads to humiliation.
could be applied to Theresa May, or would in fact be very appropriate for DS!

choccy - what does that mean???

DS found AQA english quite hard this morning. But he has never really liked english. I did ask if he managed to write something without too many 'like' 'generally' etc etc in as this is all I seem to hear when he is talking!!

'Like yeah, generally it was fine'!!

Four more this week and then the last two OCR triple sciences next week (finish on Wednesday). He (and I) cannot wait! At least I won't have to keep picking him up from school after the morning exams (half an hour drive each way!) Goodness knows what we would have done if I worked full time.

settledandsmug I jokingly gave DS the challenge to get the word hubris into his English paper.

OCR English Language this morning - comprehension was quite hard, did well with creative writing.

Hang in there everyone, nearly over!

Dd has History on Wed, RS on Thursday, then FINISHED

Ds is going be happy with an extra long summer. He has s Sixth Form taster day in early July.

Eduqas English Lang - ok. DS said he kept slipping in accidental references to election phrases when writing a letter of response about pets like - 'for the many not the few' and how pets can provide a 'strong and stable' friendship. Oh dear.

CrazedZombie I doubt your DC will have lessons after the exams. The normal procedure is for the massively long summer holiday to start then.

DS's last exam is Additional Maths on Tuesday next week (20th). Both my DCs are off to Asia on the 22nd, so I'm trying to organise all of that (visas, malaria tabs etc) whilst keeping them calm for their remaining exams.

DS looked shattered when I collected him after Edexcel English just earlier. The only information I got out of him is that he finished the questions (hooray!) and he wrote a speech for the writing task.